Mini Gerbil – The Pocket Rocket for the K40-laser Lead time is approximately Mid December – January This is our replacement product for the Gerbil we sold over the last year. Customers wanted more speed but also wanted to keep the small foot print and ease of connectivity for a an affordable small price that […]
Debugging the K40 controller set up consists of a few steps which are easy to follow. Comms Motion Limit stops Laser power You probably need: a small Philips screw driver for the screw terminals, a simple multi-meter and some gummy bears. First we need to test whether the board communicates with your computer. Best way […]
Other lasers Other lasers can be connected via the x and y axis motor outputs on the shield as long they use stepper motors. You can feed the steppers with maximum of 35 Volt on the power connector on the K40 shield. The controller is fed via the same power connector via the 5V pin. The Power stepper […]
This page describes how you can get started with cutting and engraving. We assume you have installed the Gerbil hardware and are ready for your first project. The first project is cutting a circle out of acrylic or plywood. The second project is to engrave a picture on wood. The best way to get results […]
It has been a while that I wrote a blog about my K40 but many things were in train to fulfil the Kickstarter for my K40 Controller called Gerbil (after the firmware ‘Grbl’). The news is that the K40 shields are assembled and delivered to my fulfilment partner Skyzer Technologies and the remaining Gerbil controllers […]
Another great day, as Makers of all ages flooded into the Bay Area MakerFaire to see an incredible array of projects and connect with like minded folk. Both the Laser Controller and Personal Particle Accelerator consistently received great comments like ‘very cool’ and ‘awesome’. It was really satisfying to hear so many like minded people […]
Today, our intrepid Aussie adventurers set up their demos at the Bay Area MakerFaire. We’re pretty sure they haven’t seen a particle accelerator before ! First, Jo constructed a display case for the particle accelerators – we gotta keep little fingers off this complex equipment !!! (Photo taken before the protective backing plastic was peeled […]
Engraving review K40 with Moshidraw engraving These engravings were done by someone else since I never got Moshidraw engraving to work on my machine and I really don’t want to reinstall the troublesome winseal, Moshidraw and the NanoM2 controller to find out that it does not work again. So, I can’t tell if these engravings are the best […]
